‘The dwellers, which perceiv’d such danger at the door,
‘Their King Groffarius get to raise his powerful force:
‘Who must’ring up an host of mingled foot and horse,
‘Upon the Trojans set; when suddenly began
‘A fierce and dangerous fight; where Corineus ran
‘With slaughter thro’ the thick-set squadrons of the foes,
‘And with his armed ax laid on such deadly blows,
‘That heaps of lifeless trunks each passage stopt up quite.
‘Groffarius, having lost the honour of the fight,
‘Repairs his ruin’d powers; not so to give them breath: